What is AYO?

Pronunciation: i-YOH. Language of origin: Yoruba. Definition: joy.

Welcome to AYO, your home for smart, creative, engaged women.

Our aim here is simple: to share honest, well-written, responsible stories for, by, and about self-identified black women. Through this exchange, we charge women to seek out some semblance of joy in their lives, whatever that may look like.

AYO has been a labor of love that we hope will be a wellspring of cultural examinations and exhalations, a place where various kinds of the black woman can exist.